40 DAYS AT BASE CAMP

40 DAYS AT BASE CAMP is a feature length documentary that puts a knife through the heart of the Everest myth with stories of climbers being interwoven with daily life at Base Camp, the history of the mountain and the devastating effect climate change has had on the mountains ecology. The film provides a modern take on the transformation of Everest from what was once a revered sacred space to the mountain theme park it is sadly becoming.

Film maker biography

Dianne Whelan is an award-winning Canadian photographer and filmmaker residing in Garden Bay, BC.
In April 2010, Whelan traveled to Nepal and Mount Everest Base Camp to direct and shoot her documentary film 40 DAYS AT BASE CAMP, which is currently in post-production and is also the subject of her forthcoming book.
The subject of her first book, This Vanishing Land, references her experience as an embedded media person on a historical Sovereignty Patrol in the Canadian High Arctic. Her recently released National Film Board documentary, This Land, is based on the same journey and has won several awards, including Best Short Documentary at both the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto and the 2010 Leo Awards for BC film and television. A multi-media web project on her Arctic journey was released in June 2010 and recently won Best Small Multimedia Site at the Online Journalism Awards.